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Aliens Predator movies TV ranked

Every ‘Aliens/Predator’ Universe movie and series, ranked

For over 40 years, the nightmares of H.R. Giger have successfully been passed on to us via Ridley Scott, Sigourney Weaver and other filmmaking talents.

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Movies 2025

John’s top 10 movies of 2025

The spectacle of the best franchise superhero and action movies got to me in 2025, although I also sat through surprising misfires. I still surprised

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TV 2025

John’s top 10 TV shows of 2025

I found my TV habits changing in 2025. I met the fall season with a Gen-Z-style “meh,” and I was fine delaying viewings of even

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MCU films ranked

All 37 Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, ranked

Superhero fatigue? What superhero fatigue? In the 2010s, the Marvel Cinematic Universe completed the Infinity Saga, essentially a 22-episode TV season except with mega-budget movies.

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Rocky Creed films ranked

All 10 ‘Rocky’/ ‘Creed’ films, ranked from chump to champ

For a half-century, Sylvester Stallone and his collaborators have explored the impact of boxing, friendship, family, the ability to throw a punch and – more

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Hitchcock rankings

A century of suspense: All 52 Alfred Hitchcock films, ranked

A century ago, Alfred Hitchcock quietly (indeed, soundlessly) started his career with throwaway rom-dram “The Pleasure Garden.” Fifty-two years and exactly 52 films later, he

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Marple Season 6

‘Marple’ Season 6 (2013) takes a respectable final bow

“Agatha Christie’s Marple” wraps its run with a three-episode Season 6 (2013, ITV, A&E) featuring the last remaining novel to be adapted, a smart mashup

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Marple Season 5

‘Agatha Christie’s Marple’ Season 5 (2010-11) offers something old, something new

Had “Agatha Christie’s Marple” kept going beyond its 23 episodes, it likely would’ve adapted all or most of the Marple short stories. The first one

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Marple Season 4

Handoff to McKenzie is intriguing – if not exactly smooth – in ‘Marple’ Season 4 (2009)

It’s generally thought that “Poirot” nailed the TV casting with David Suchet whereas “Miss Marple”/”Marple” struggled by bouncing between Joan Hickson, Geraldine McEwan and Julia

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Fall Movie Preview

Fall movie preview 2025: 10 films I wouldn’t mind seeing

Tis the season for Stephen King adaptations, biopics, mysteries, Oscar bait and oddities. These are my picks for 10 films from Fall 2025 worth checking

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